Charlotte HENSCHEL (1905-1985) Abstract composition... Lot 21

Charlotte HENSCHEL (1905-1985) Abstract composition Oil and collage on canvas Signed lower right Natural wood frame Size : 99 x 81 cm. 38,98 x 31,89 in. Size with the frame : 107,2 x 88,1 cm. 42,2 x 34,69 in. Canvas reinforced at the level of the relief at the bottom of the painting, some wear to the paint Charlotte HENSCHEL (1905-1985) was a German-born painter belonging to the Ecole de Paris. She studied at the Academy of Arts in Breslau and continued her training in Berlin in the studio of painter Karl HOFER (1878-1955). She then met the painter Nicolas WACKER (1897-1987) and moved to Paris in the 1920s. From 1933 onwards, Charlotte HENSCHEL found herself in an increasingly precarious situation, first financially and then humanly following the declaration of war in 1939. In 1940, the artist was interned as a "German" in the Convent of the Black Ladies in Cahors. After the Liberation, she participated in the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles and held several personal exhibitions, including one in Lyon in 1954, in the Folklore gallery of Marcel MICHAUD (1898-1958). Some of her works have been donated to the Cahors museum.